Subject: English Language Arts (K) Title: Paper Chase VocabularyDescription: Students will exhibit an awareness on the concept of the story. Students will gain an understanding of the vocabulary, extend the vocabulary, and use it while speaking and writing. Students will become familiar with vocabulary as it is placed within a text.

Subject: English Language Arts (K - 1) Title: Elkonin Letterbox Lesson Long a: ay, aiDescription: This lesson is an Elkonin letterbox lesson designed to help help students to isolate and pronounce initial, medial vowel and final sounds (phonemes) in spoken single-syllable words. Elkonin letterbox lessons are hands-on activities that involve orally producing single syllable words by blending sounds (phonemes), including consonant blends and the segmentation of single-syllable words.

Subject: English Language Arts (K), or Technology Education (K - 2) Title: Phonological Awareness/RhymingDescription: During this lesson students will be introduced to rhyme in a variety of ways. Students will use picture cards, practice rhyming on the Internet, and listen to a book with rhyme. At the end of the lesson, student should be able to recognize rhyming words.

Subject: English Language Arts (K) Title: Celebrating Seuss!Description: In honor of Dr. Seuss's birthday students will explore and develop a love of the literature of Dr. Seuss through read-alouds and activities such as a birthday party, rhyming word matching, and graphing.

Thinkfinity Lesson Plans

Subject: Language ArtsTitle: Building a Matrix for Leo Lionni Books: An Author StudyAdd BookmarkDescription: In this author study, students listen to and discuss four books by Leo Lionni. They identify similarities and differences in the stories and then compare two stories of their choice.Thinkfinity Partner: ReadWriteThinkGrade Span: K,1,2

Subject: Language ArtsTitle: Integrating Language Arts: If You Give a Mouse a Cookie Add BookmarkDescription: This lesson integrates reading, writing, listening, and speaking to boost students' comprehension skills. Students explore Laura Joffe Numeroff 's If You Give a Mouse a Cookie using a variety of techniques, beginning with a picture walk and ending with the creation and publication of their own versions of the text.Thinkfinity Partner: ReadWriteThinkGrade Span: K,1,2

Subject: Language ArtsTitle: Jane Yolen was born in 1939.Add BookmarkDescription: Students read one of Jane Yolen's books, retell the story in the form of a puppet show, research animals in the book, and document their findings with the Animal Study interactive tool.Thinkfinity Partner: ReadWriteThinkGrade Span: 1,2,3,4,5

Subject: Language ArtsTitle: Catching the Bug for Reading Through Interactive Read-AloudsAdd BookmarkDescription: Students learn about story structure, new vocabulary, and a variety of reading strategies by participating in an interactive read-aloud of Miss Bindergarten Stays Home From Kindergarten by Joseph Slate.Thinkfinity Partner: ReadWriteThinkGrade Span: K,1

Subject: Language ArtsTitle: Let's Build a SnowmanAdd BookmarkDescription: In this lesson, students use both fiction and nonfiction texts, the Internet, and a K-W-L chart to learn about how animals survive the winter.Thinkfinity Partner: ReadWriteThinkGrade Span: K,1,2

Subject: Language ArtsTitle: Animal Study: From Fiction to FactsAdd BookmarkDescription: Students listen to fiction and nonfiction read-alouds and explore selected Websites to identify factual information about animals. This lesson focuses on ants, but can be adapted to any animal.Thinkfinity Partner: ReadWriteThinkGrade Span: K,1,2